Space tourism is a great idea. 1. Space research programs are strapped for cash. 2. Rich people have lots of cash. 3. Space research has long-term, not-very-tangible goals. 4. People who have lots of cash generally made it by focussing on short-term, tangible goals. Therefore, they are not likely to spend money on space research. 5. However, "going into space" is immediate and extremely tangible, not to mention fun. 6. So rich people will spend their cash on space tourism. And the profits will go to space research. Great!
Given the dodgy tactics KaZaA used to grab market share from Morpheus (by shutting them out of the network) and how pissed off Morpheus was at them for doing that, I'm surprised no one has fingered them as a possible source of the worm. It's not a destructive worm: it just discourages people from using KaZaA. Now, who would *that* kind of worm benefit?
Not if you're looking for action and explosions, no. But 2001 is clearly a brilliant SF movie, and it's got no action at all. If action is what you want, then choose the best action movie of all time -- but for pure SF, Gattaca is definitely up there.
And the fact that Ethan Hawke and Jude Law are total hotties is neither here nor there, obviously:-)
*First* Slashdot ruins the show for loads of people by saying the Lone Gunmen are dead. *Then*, after all the backlash, Slashdot ruins the show *again* by revealing that they aren't!
Lockheed already owns veteran blimp maker Goodyear Aerospace Corp. of Akron, Ohio, and has been making airships since 1929. Lockheed now produces "Aerostats," small, remote-controlled, tethered blimps that float 15,000 feet high and are used to monitor the U.S.-Mexican border.
and
Boeing's Unmanned Systems Group and its innovative PhantomWorks research group are working on the concept
1. The Zeppelins are going to be *very* high up; you'd be pretty sharp to spot one; planes look tiny from the ground and these are gonna be twice as high up as planes. 2. The idea is that there won't *be* another route; they will provide total coverage of the borders -- being high up, they can each cover a huge area, so you don't need too many to do that.
KaZaA is proposing one dollar per user as a fee, which is very reasonable, and will apparently generate 2 billion annually -- but where is KaZaA getting that kind of money? Advertising revenues? Don't make me laugh.
A friend of mine bought that CD. It plays (and rips) fine in my computer -- even on Window Media Player, for pete's sake -- except for the last track, which won't rip or play. I dunno how effective you call that...
IIRC, access to cameras and mics (if present) was also a feature of Flash 5 certainly, and maybe Flash 4 as well -- the feature was just a little bit more buried then, and perhaps the detection built into the OS at the time wasn't as good.
I remember wondering what on earth a website would do with data from my microphone. Count the number of obscenities I muttered as I waited for the stupid flash-enabled splash screen to go away?
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Maybe the reason so many stories seem to leave out Turing's role (Cryptonomicon is a wonderful exception) is the distasteful and appalling way he met his death. Turing was gay (and fairly openly so, for the time). The government put him through a number of disgusting "conversion therapies" (including electroshock, etc. if I recall correctly) and he eventually took his own life. It is an appalling abuse of human rights by the British government, and perpetrated against a man who single-handedly did an enormous amount to help end the war.
I worked for a dot-com in the UK which had to charge VAT on all purchases, based on the location to which it was shipping the item. The rules were different for every country -- the price threshold at which the tax applied, the tax rate itself, the types of items to which the tax applied -- and it was a nightmare to code a system which could handle every possibility. Enforcing this rule will only further discourage American companies from shipping to Europe -- something they're already aggravatingly unwilling to do.
When are governments going to grasp the idea that none of them have any jurisdiction over the Internet?
Okay, so the kid's not been able to play violent video games. Instead, he's been restricted to watching the mutilation, decapitation, rape, violence and miscellaneous other assorted felonies that are the mainstay of TV and movies. Hmm, this bill is going to make a lot of difference, I can tell.
And how exactly do you "go overboard the first time" playing a violent video game? You'll suddenly decide killing is cool and go out and knife a load of people on the street?
Fuel cells are not the only use, however. Simply combining H2 with O2 produces a goodly amount of energy, and if you have abundant cheap hydrogen then you don't need to recharge the cell; you can just throw away the waste products (e.g., drink the water:-) ) and pump some more H2 in. The reason this is not a popular way of using H2 right now is precisely because H2 is so expensive.
If (at least in some states) source code is free speech, and games are just the result of that code, I don't see how this is going to hold up under appeal. IANAL (obviously).
I really hope I never reach the stage where I start (as lots of people do) to treat kids as if they were some kind of vastly different group of people, or another form of life. Kids are just (sometimes) slightly dumber people who happen to be small. Why is it surprising that they act like adults?
It's nice that BT is dropping the wholesale price of DSL, but that doesn't actually mean their installations will get any quicker, that the DSL will remain reliable, or even that large swathes of the country will ever get DSL....
...In the mid 90's, we were told that cable modems were a 'year away'...
I'm posting this from a computer sitting behind a BT ADSL connection. My friends across town have one too, and my friends in the next town over have a cable modem from NTL instead (much better than BT, and only £25 a month, but not available here).
I wholeheartedly agree that Britain lags behind in broadband, and I also agree that the fault lies mainly with BT for maintaining an effective monopoly on the last mile, amongst other things. But the same was true of dial-up access in the first place, and it is now almost ubiquitous. Britain will get its act together -- a few years after the rest of the world, as usual.
Personally, if I heard a legend about 7 temples, and the 7th temple was not only already discovered standing on land, but also one of the most photographed temples in India, then I'd be inclined to believe the other 6 temples existed, wouldn't you? Call me wacky...
Apart from saying they support your right to mix-rip'n'burn, this doesn't really take issue against the CPDB... CPTDB... Bad Law Thingy(TM). (Maybe because it's so hard to remember the acronym, especially since they keep changing it)
This ad doesn't go far enough, or bring home the true horribleness of the law. We need shock tactics, like those highway-safety ads. I want to see the cow standing in the middle of the highway with a big placard, screaming "The CBDTPA SUUUUUCKS!" and then getting run down by a Disney truck, preferably driven by a Senator Hollings impostor.
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Space tourism is a great idea.
1. Space research programs are strapped for cash.
2. Rich people have lots of cash.
3. Space research has long-term, not-very-tangible goals.
4. People who have lots of cash generally made it by focussing on short-term, tangible goals. Therefore, they are not likely to spend money on space research.
5. However, "going into space" is immediate and extremely tangible, not to mention fun.
6. So rich people will spend their cash on space tourism. And the profits will go to space research. Great!
Given the dodgy tactics KaZaA used to grab market share from Morpheus (by shutting them out of the network) and how pissed off Morpheus was at them for doing that, I'm surprised no one has fingered them as a possible source of the worm. It's not a destructive worm: it just discourages people from using KaZaA. Now, who would *that* kind of worm benefit?
Not if you're looking for action and explosions, no. But 2001 is clearly a brilliant SF movie, and it's got no action at all. If action is what you want, then choose the best action movie of all time -- but for pure SF, Gattaca is definitely up there.
:-)
And the fact that Ethan Hawke and Jude Law are total hotties is neither here nor there, obviously
*First* Slashdot ruins the show for loads of people by saying the Lone Gunmen are dead. *Then*, after all the backlash, Slashdot ruins the show *again* by revealing that they aren't!
Geez... you think they'd learn!
According to the article:
Lockheed already owns veteran blimp maker Goodyear Aerospace Corp. of Akron, Ohio, and has been making airships since 1929. Lockheed now produces "Aerostats," small, remote-controlled, tethered blimps that float 15,000 feet high and are used to monitor the U.S.-Mexican border.
and
Boeing's Unmanned Systems Group and its innovative PhantomWorks research group are working on the concept
So: Boeing, and Lockheed Martin.
1. The Zeppelins are going to be *very* high up; you'd be pretty sharp to spot one; planes look tiny from the ground and these are gonna be twice as high up as planes.
2. The idea is that there won't *be* another route; they will provide total coverage of the borders -- being high up, they can each cover a huge area, so you don't need too many to do that.
1st and 3rd options were *checked*, for me, and I'm the 3 times consecutive winner of the "Most paranoid about giving away personal info" award.
Bastards!
KaZaA is proposing one dollar per user as a fee, which is very reasonable, and will apparently generate 2 billion annually -- but where is KaZaA getting that kind of money? Advertising revenues? Don't make me laugh.
A friend of mine bought that CD. It plays (and rips) fine in my computer -- even on Window Media Player, for pete's sake -- except for the last track, which won't rip or play. I dunno how effective you call that...
Ok then, my bad. Thanks for the info :-)
IIRC, access to cameras and mics (if present) was also a feature of Flash 5 certainly, and maybe Flash 4 as well -- the feature was just a little bit more buried then, and perhaps the detection built into the OS at the time wasn't as good.
I remember wondering what on earth a website would do with data from my microphone. Count the number of obscenities I muttered as I waited for the stupid flash-enabled splash screen to go away?
Maybe the reason so many stories seem to leave out Turing's role (Cryptonomicon is a wonderful exception) is the distasteful and appalling way he met his death. Turing was gay (and fairly openly so, for the time). The government put him through a number of disgusting "conversion therapies" (including electroshock, etc. if I recall correctly) and he eventually took his own life. It is an appalling abuse of human rights by the British government, and perpetrated against a man who single-handedly did an enormous amount to help end the war.
I worked for a dot-com in the UK which had to charge VAT on all purchases, based on the location to which it was shipping the item. The rules were different for every country -- the price threshold at which the tax applied, the tax rate itself, the types of items to which the tax applied -- and it was a nightmare to code a system which could handle every possibility. Enforcing this rule will only further discourage American companies from shipping to Europe -- something they're already aggravatingly unwilling to do.
When are governments going to grasp the idea that none of them have any jurisdiction over the Internet?
Okay, so the kid's not been able to play violent video games. Instead, he's been restricted to watching the mutilation, decapitation, rape, violence and miscellaneous other assorted felonies that are the mainstay of TV and movies. Hmm, this bill is going to make a lot of difference, I can tell.
And how exactly do you "go overboard the first time" playing a violent video game? You'll suddenly decide killing is cool and go out and knife a load of people on the street?
Fuel cells are not the only use, however. Simply combining H2 with O2 produces a goodly amount of energy, and if you have abundant cheap hydrogen then you don't need to recharge the cell; you can just throw away the waste products (e.g., drink the water :-) ) and pump some more H2 in. The reason this is not a popular way of using H2 right now is precisely because H2 is so expensive.
If (at least in some states) source code is free speech, and games are just the result of that code, I don't see how this is going to hold up under appeal. IANAL (obviously).
...a beowulf cluster of these!
(Sorry, but I just had to...)
I really hope I never reach the stage where I start (as lots of people do) to treat kids as if they were some kind of vastly different group of people, or another form of life. Kids are just (sometimes) slightly dumber people who happen to be small. Why is it surprising that they act like adults?
It's nice that BT is dropping the wholesale price of DSL, but that doesn't actually mean their installations will get any quicker, that the DSL will remain reliable, or even that large swathes of the country will ever get DSL....
...In the mid 90's, we were told that cable modems were a 'year away'...
I'm posting this from a computer sitting behind a BT ADSL connection. My friends across town have one too, and my friends in the next town over have a cable modem from NTL instead (much better than BT, and only £25 a month, but not available here).
I wholeheartedly agree that Britain lags behind in broadband, and I also agree that the fault lies mainly with BT for maintaining an effective monopoly on the last mile, amongst other things. But the same was true of dial-up access in the first place, and it is now almost ubiquitous. Britain will get its act together -- a few years after the rest of the world, as usual.
Personally, if I heard a legend about 7 temples, and the 7th temple was not only already discovered standing on land, but also one of the most photographed temples in India, then I'd be inclined to believe the other 6 temples existed, wouldn't you? Call me wacky...
Does it really take much of a stretch of imagination to come up with a better mockery than "TrustUnWorthy"? It's not even a word! :-)
"Hardcoreware.net"? Are you sure this isn't porn spam?
/.ed anyway, so it doesn't matter...
Apart from saying they support your right to mix-rip'n'burn, this doesn't really take issue against the CPDB... CPTDB... Bad Law Thingy(TM). (Maybe because it's so hard to remember the acronym, especially since they keep changing it)
This ad doesn't go far enough, or bring home the true horribleness of the law. We need shock tactics, like those highway-safety ads. I want to see the cow standing in the middle of the highway with a big placard, screaming "The CBDTPA SUUUUUCKS!" and then getting run down by a Disney truck, preferably driven by a Senator Hollings impostor.
It wasn't a troll, honest! I'm just dumb! :-)
To quote grandpa Simpson, "bitch, bitch, bitch". It's still easy to uninstall -- see my other reply.